With gold prices more than $1,100 an ounce, it's "like visions of sugar plums" when gold coins are discovered by the ringing bell Santas who count their donations after a long day of volunteering at shopping malls and on street corners. With the season only two weeks old, anonymous gifts of gold for the Salvation Army charity are showing up in red kettles across the country
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A down-and-out musician who was living in a Rescue Mission shelter with his sickly 6-year-old son, has won a talent competition, after a fellow resident who heard radio ads promoting the contest urged him to enter.
An unknown couple started a chain reaction at Aramingo Diner in Port Richmond, PA by paying for their own meal and for the tab including tip, of another table of diners at the restaurant. For the next five hours, dozens of patrons got into that same holiday spirit paying the favor forward — generously picking […]
Florida resident James Bain was exonerated and released from prison Thursday, after spending 35 years behind bars for a wrongful conviction. Bain had spent more time in prison than any of the 246 inmates previously exonerated by DNA evidence nationwide, yet despite the serious injustice of this situation, Bain said, "No, I am not angry."
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A Minnesota bachelor had no time to date women, stringing the hundreds of thousands of lights in his annual Christmas display, but she appeared anyway.
Motorists expecting a ticket, instead received Christmas cash from a deputy on patrol specifically to hand out holiday cheer.
Muslim families dining out in America's Deep South were delighted when their bill was paid in full by a kind stranger as a Christmas gesture.
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Six tiny houses are the first of a planned village to give shelter to the homeless in Tennessee.
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